Taboo and Repugnant Roundup (Week of 12/8/2025)

The latest Substack connects three domains where law, norms, and market design intersect:

• The organ-donation paradox, where ex-post gifts are celebrated while ex-ante payment remains illegal.

• Feeding America’s adoption of a market with auctions and “shares,” reshaping how donated food is allocated.

• Closing the Repugnant Transactions seminar, dedicated to understanding such ethically charged exchanges.

Together these cases illuminate how societies construct, manage, and contest repugnant markets.

🔗 https://open.substack.com/pub/kimberlydkrawiec/p/taboo-and-repugnant-roundup-week-d2e

Taboo and Repugnant Roundup (Week of 12/8/2025) by Kimberly D. Krawiec

Illegal ex ante but generous ex post, Repugnant Transactions comes to a close, and markets for free food

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